NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The upclient command initializes the client portion of the Update
Server. In the conventional configuration, its binary file is located in
the /usr/lib/openafs directory on a file server machine.

The upclient command is not normally issued at the command shell prompt
but rather placed into a file server machine's /etc/openafs/BosConfig
file with the bos create command. If it is ever issued at the command
shell prompt, the issuer must be logged onto a database server machine as
the local superuser "root".

The upclient process periodically checks that all files in each local
directory named by the dir argument match the files in the
corresponding directory on the source machine named by the hostname
argument. If a file does not match, the upclient process requests the
source copy from the upserver process running on the source machine.

By default, the upclient process requests that the upserver process
encrypt the data before transferring it. Use the -clear flag to
request unencrypted transfer if appropriate. (The -crypt flag
explicitly sets the default.)

In the conventional configuration, separate instances of the upclient
process request data from the /usr/lib/openafs and /etc/openafs/server
directories, except on machines for which the system control machine is
also the binary distribution machine for the machine's system type. The
conventional names for the separate instances are "upclientbin" and
"upclientetc" respectively.

The upclient and upserver processes always mutually authenticate,
whether or not the data they pass is encrypted; they use the key with the
highest key version number in the /etc/openafs/server/KeyFile file to
construct a server ticket for mutual authentication.

This command does not use the syntax conventions of the AFS command
suites. Provide the command name and all option names in full.

CAUTIONS

Do not use the Update Server to distribute the contents of the
/etc/openafs/server directory using the -clear option. The contents of
this directory are sensitive.

OPTIONS

<hostname>

Names either the cell's system control machine (if the requested directory
is /etc/openafs/server), or the binary distribution machine for the local
machine's CPU and operating system type (if the requested directory is
/usr/lib/openafs).

-crypt

Requests the transfer of data from the upserver process in encrypted
form. This is the default; this flag just sets the default explicitly.
Do not use this flag with the -clear flag.

-clear

Requests transfer of data from the upserver process in unencrypted
form. Provide this flag or the -crypt flag, but not both.

-t <retry time>

Specifies how often to check for changes in each specified directory, as a
number of seconds. If this argument is omitted, the default is 300 (5
minutes). This argument determines the maximum amount of time it takes for
a change made on the source machine to propagate to this machine.

-verbose*

Writes a trace of the upclient process's operations on the standard output
stream, which usually corresponds to the machine console. Provide one,
two, or three instances of the flag; each additional instance generates
increasingly numerous and detailed messages.

<dir>+

Names each directory to check for modified files. The conventional choices
are the following:

•

/usr/lib/openafs, in which case the recommended name for the process
(assigned with the -instance argument to the bos create command) is
"upclientbin". The hostname is the binary distribution machine for the
local machine's system type. You may wish to use the -clear flag for
the /usr/lib/openafs directory, since binaries are not particularly
sensitive and encrypting them takes system resources.

•

/etc/openafs/server, in which case the recommended name for the process
(assigned with the -instance argument to the bos create command) is
"upclientetc". The hostname is the cell's system control machine. Use
the -crypt flag for the /etc/openafs/server directory, since it contains
the KeyFile file and other data vital to cell security.

-help

Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are
ignored.

EXAMPLES

The following bos create command creates an "upclientbin" process on the
machine "fs4.abc.com" that refers to the machine "fs1.abc.com" as the
source for the /usr/lib/openafs directory (thus "fs1.abc.com" is the
binary distribution machine for machines of "fs4.abc.com"'s type). The
files in the /usr/lib/openafs directory are distributed every 120 seconds.
The command requests transfer in unencrypted form.

PRIVILEGE REQUIRED

The issuer must be logged in as the superuser "root" on a file server
machine to issue the command at a command shell prompt. It is conventional
instead to create and start the process by issuing the bos create
command.

SEE ALSO

COPYRIGHT

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